Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.